Wick device



N. VEENBOER WICK DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED M'AR.19,192L

Patented Oct IIVt EIVTOR Yeenboer TTOR/VEY v WITNEBS Patented @ct. l7, 19223..

TEN l? E Q NICHOLAS VII-l-Eh'l'B OER, OF PATERSON, NEW'JERSEY.

"WICK DEVICE.

Application filed March 19, 1921.

To all whom it may co n-001 a.

Be it known that I, Nrorronns VnnNBon-R, a subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vick Devices, of which the. following is a specification.

This invention consists-in a tubular wick device for oil lamps and stoves comprising a carrying sleeve, adapted to be verticallymovably supported in the lamp,and a plurality of tubular wicks proper or wick members arranged in telescopic relation to the sleeve and so that they have end-abutment with. each other within the sleeve and one projects sufficiently below to reach the oil in the lamp and the other sufficiently above the sleeve so that combustion ofthe oil can proceed, thelatter member being removable and thus, when burned away,replaceable by another. The common wick device now in use includes a sleeve and a one-piece wick member secured therein; when the wick member burns away so far that combustion will no longer be supported the entire device has to be discarded. In the use of my wick device only the upper wick member has to be discarded when combustion will no longer be supported, so that a great saving to users of lamps and stoves ensues. I have found it indispensable to the maintenance of an even flame all around that the meeting ends of the wick members of my device shall abut evenly and in true vertical registry with each other all around in order that the progress of the fuel upwardly shall be uninterrupted and, uniform at all points. My invention also, there-fore, includes a novel method of assembling the parts of my device.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the parts of my device while being assembled, a certain expander also appearing in partial section;

Figure 2 shows the parts of the device assembled, partly in side elevation and partly in section; and

Figures 3 and l show the parts in plan in the partly assembled and fully assembled condition illustrated by Figures 1 and 2.

a designates the usual metal raiser sleeve of a lamp, the same having vertical series of notches or holes 6 formed therein in the usual manner to provide rack teeth to en- Serial No. 453,700.

gage with the teeth of the pinion in the lamp for moving the wick device vertically in ad- The lower member (Z is of suflicicnt length to pro ect well within the sleeve a and leave enough of such member depending from the sleeve to reach the oil in the lamp well; member (Z has its upper end within the sleeve, when assembled therewith, thus forming therein a shoulder or seat 6. I/Vick member has a shorter length, to wit, sufficient to reach from the shoulder e and project enough above the sleeve so that combustion can proceed.

lVhen assembled within the sleeve the two wick members abut each other end to end evenly all around and so that each is in vertical registry or alinement with the other all around. This arrangement is important, because otherwise the fuel will not progress upwardly and with uniformity all around, and the flame would be low in some places and high in others.

lVhen the wick member 7 burns down so far that combustion will no longer be afforded said wick member is removed and replaced by a fresh one, the other parts a. and a? being reused indefinitely.

Having experienced difficulty in obtaining an even contact all around of the two abutting ends of the members d and f and their vertical registry or alinement with each other all around I have devised the following method of assembling the member 7' with the assembled parts a and (Z. The member f is inserted into the sleeve so that its inner end will be at least as far within the sleeve as the shoulder e, and so that it will obtain a good contact therewith as: far as possible circumferentially: principally on account of the spurs c it is impossible by hand to avoid vthe formation of bends in member 7, as indicated at g in Figure 3, which if left therein would prevent the fuel from feeding upwardly where they occur from member (Z to member f, so that the flame of the lamp would be irregular. So upon assembling member f with the other two parts in the way stated I then force a rigid cone h whose greater diameter (its lower end in Figure l) is somewhat greater than the normal interior diameter of members (Z and 7', through the tubular passage formed by the members 6? and f, so that it acts as an expander and forces the inbends g outwardly, or into perfectly conforming relation to the interior 0]": the sleeve, that is, so that member i will be in true alinement or registry all around with member cl, as well as in end to end contact therewith all around. This operation will expand the member f, moreover, so that the spurs 0 will be now embedded. therein, the same as they are already assumed to have been embedded in the member (Z (see Figures 2 and 4). These results of the expanding, thus effected, are shown clearly in Figures 2 and 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent "is:-

l. A wick device including a rigid raiser sleeve, a tubular wick member held telescopically within the sleeve, and a replaceable flexible wick member removably arranged telescopically in the sleeve, the latter wick member being formed tubular independently of the sleeve and held therein with its lower edge abutting the other wick member, edge to edge all around by hearing against the sleeve all around.

2. The hereindescribed method of assembling, with a rigid carrying sleeve and a wick member telescoped therein and having one edge within the sleeve, another wick member so that one edge of the latter will abut and longitudinally register with said edge of the first wick member all around which consists in entering one edge of the second wick member into the sleeve as far all around as said edge o f the first wick member and then forcing a rigid cone, having its greater diameter not less than the normal interior diameter of the second wick member, through the latter, whereby to expand the second wick member outwardly all around against the sleeve.

' 3. The hereindescribed method of assembling, with a rigid carrying sleeve and a wick member telescoped therein and having one edge within the sleeve, another wick member so that one edge of the latter will abut and longitudinally register with said edge of the first wickfmember all around. which consists in entering one edge of the second wick member into the sleeve as far all around as said-edge of the first wick member and then pressing the second wick member all around outwardly against the sleeve and simultaneously shifting such pressure-toward one end of said sleeve.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

NICHOLAS VEENBOER. 

